Re: Artificially Intelligent Squid

From: Jef Poskanzer <jef@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 1996 16:27:33 PST

>Is it possible for squid to use some sort of ai algorithm to determine if a
>page has recurrent updates at approximately the same time?

And what, schedule a fetch for that time? Wouldn't even have to be built
into squig, an auxilliary program that understood squid's cache format
could do it. There are lots of policy issues, though. E.g. given that
you've detected a recurring-update page, how do you decide whether
you *want* to keep it current?

I hear that some of the web indexing companies use this trick.

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Jef
Received on Sun Nov 10 1996 - 16:27:36 MST

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